Diego Gil - The Beach Boys, Smile (Book)

Imagined in several forms, Smile may never become a fixed, canonical masterpiece. For decades it existed in fragments, reworked by the record company, Brian Wilson and the other Beach Boys. Whether called Smile, Smiley Smile, Smile Sessions or Brian Wilson Presents Smile, it remains an open, seemingly unfinishable work. Following the chronology of studio sessions, this book offers a reading as fragmented as its subject.